On Thursday the 9th of July 2015, Mrs.Ssuubi Ellen Eva participated in a Round-table discussion on the UN Rules for the treatment of women prisoners and non-custodial measures for women offenders (Bangkok Rules), organised by Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI) and Penal Reform International (PRI).

Ellen presented a Wells of Hope statement about mothers of children with a parent in prison; Our interaction with the mothers and the children shows that there is still a big gap for Uganda to conform to these rules and some of these rules stated in the Bangkok Rules were cited in the statement. She recommended that: the number of children with a mother in prison should be established; wide research should be made to look into deeper issues relating to children of these mothers at the time of arrest, during imprisonment and after imprisonment. As Wells of Hope, we call for the harmonization of all the available international instruments for example, the Bangkok Rules, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, sensitization for all stakeholders about them and we also call for the domestication of all these rules in Uganda.

From the Roundtable, it was recommended that an in-depth research be carried out on children with mothers in prison.